Counter Speech: How to Undo Things with Words
In this seminar we'll discuss a series of works on the things we do with words, and the possibility (and perhaps responsibility!) to undo things with words.
Preliminary reading list:
Austin, John L. 1962. How To Do Things with Words.
Ayala, Saray & Nadya Vasilyeva. 2016. Responsibility for Silence.
Kukla, Rebecca. 2014. Performative Force, Convention, and Discursive Injustice.
Langton, Rae. 2017. Blocking as Counter-Speech.
Langton, Rae. 2017. Words that wound: Understanding the authority of hate speech.
Lewis, David. 1979. Scorekeeping in a Language Game.
Maitra, Ishani, 2012. Subordinating Speech.
McGowan, Mary Kate. 2009. Oppressive Speech.
McGowan, Mary Kate. 2004. Conversacional Exercitives: Something else We Do with Our Words.
Sbisà, Marina. 1999. Ideology and the persuasive use of presupposition.
Simpson, Robert M. 2012. Unringing the Bell: Mcgowan on Oppressive Speech and The Asymmetric Pliability of Conversations.
Tirell, Lynne. 2012. Genocidal Language Games.
Waldron, Jeremy. 2017. Heckle: To Disconcert with Questions, Challenges, or Gibes.
Ayala, Saray & Nadya Vasilyeva. 2016. Responsibility for Silence.
Kukla, Rebecca. 2014. Performative Force, Convention, and Discursive Injustice.
Langton, Rae. 2017. Blocking as Counter-Speech.
Langton, Rae. 2017. Words that wound: Understanding the authority of hate speech.
Lewis, David. 1979. Scorekeeping in a Language Game.
Maitra, Ishani, 2012. Subordinating Speech.
McGowan, Mary Kate. 2009. Oppressive Speech.
McGowan, Mary Kate. 2004. Conversacional Exercitives: Something else We Do with Our Words.
Sbisà, Marina. 1999. Ideology and the persuasive use of presupposition.
Simpson, Robert M. 2012. Unringing the Bell: Mcgowan on Oppressive Speech and The Asymmetric Pliability of Conversations.
Tirell, Lynne. 2012. Genocidal Language Games.
Waldron, Jeremy. 2017. Heckle: To Disconcert with Questions, Challenges, or Gibes.
